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Elgar And Ferreira Partnership Lead Titans To Victory

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Elgar And Ferreira Partnership Lead Titans To Victory:

JOHANNESBURG: Dean Elgar and Donovan Ferreira’s record-breaking partnership led the Momentum Multiply Titans to a comfortable six-wicket victory against the Hollywoodbets Dolphins on Wednesday.

Chasing 271, Titans fell into early anxiety after the collapse of their openers.

Dolphins skipper, Eathan Bosch (3/56) facilitated the early destruction, dismissing Dewald Brevis for none, Rivaldo Moonsamy with two before trapping Neil Brand (22) lbw in the 11th over.

Ottniel Baartman saw off Sibonelo Makhanya in the following over and Titans slumped to 41/4.

Elgar (100* off 106 (including nine 4s) and Ferreira (138* off 106 with 12 fours and 7 sixes) held their nerve to a record unbeaten 232-run partnership for the fifth wicket to secure victory for the visitors.

Earlier, Dolphins had opted to bat first, with Jason Smith (75), Andile Simelane (41) and Tshepang Dithole (36) as top contributors for the hosts.

An all-round performance from Ferreira (3/53) who dismissed the trio as Titans kept taking crucial wickets at regular intervals to restrict the Dolphins side.

Junior Dala (2/47) caught and bowled Jon Jon Smuts (15) and saw off Bryce Parsons (21) and the hosts posted 270/8 in their allotted 50 Overs.

The CSA 1 Day Cup also continued in Paarl where Gbets Rocks hosted AET Tuskers in Boland Park.

The hosts were establish to the bat first as Janneman Malan and Clyde Fortuin, who scored 68 runs each assign up an opening stand of 130 runs.

The batting prowess was an all-round effort as contributions from Keegan Petersen (44), Christiaan Jonker (45*), and Ferisco Adams (32) took the hosts to a 306-run target.

Tuskers’ Malcom Nofal and skipper, Michael Erlank took two wickets apiece in the six wickets that fell in the Rocks innings.

In their response, half centuries from Tian Koekemoer (84) , and Alindile Mhletywa (50) were not enough as Tuskers were bowled out for 223 in honest under 47 overs.

Hardus Viljoen was the pick of the bowlers, returning 4/25 and Rocks secured a comfortable 80-run win.

In Division 2, visitors, ITEC Knights secured a 30-run win against Limpopo Impalas in Polokwane whilst the Eastern Cape Iinyathi suffered a four-wicket defeat to Mpumalanga Rhinos in White River.

 

UPCOMING CSA ONE DAY CUP MATCHES:

DIVISION 2

 

Thursday, 12 October 2023

10h00: Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers vs Northern Cape Heat – Recreation Ground, Oudtshoorn

DIVISION 1

Friday, 13 October 2023

13h00: Momentum Multiply Titans vs North West Dragons – SuperSport Park, Centurion

 

Source: cricket.co.za

Allan Donald: The ‘White Lightning’ makes it to the 6th on the list. Donald was not just South Africa’s best fast bowler in his time but also World’s number 1 bowler. He along with Shaun Pollock was one of the best bowling duos in the world.
Allan Donald was the first South African bowler to pick 300 international wickets. He drew the path for Pollock, Steyn, and Ntini. He is the 2nd highest wicket-taker in ODi’s for the Proteas with 272 wickets to his name. Overall, he is their 4th highest wicket-taker in all formats. He has bagged 601 wickets in his professional career.

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Top Star Drive-In: Destroyed by What Created it

However, the very thing that created the Top Star eventually destroyed it. Because the early miners had used crude methods, the Ferreira Dump—and dozens of others like it—still contained significant traces of gold. As the price of gold rose and new chemical extraction technologies (like the carbon-in-pulp process) made it profitable to “mine the waste,” the ground beneath the Top Star became more valuable than the cinema itself. In 2006, despite fierce opposition from heritage groups who argued that the dump and the drive-in were culturally significant landmarks, the projectors were turned off for the last time.

The reclamation of the dump was a staggering industrial feat. Starting in 2008, mining giant DRDGold used high-pressure water cannons to “monitor” the dump, turning 5 million tons of solid earth back into a liquid slurry. This slurry was then piped 40 kilometers across the province to a processing plant in Brakpan. By 2011, the “mountain” had completely vanished. The 50-meter-high plateau that had dominated the southern skyline for a century was reduced to a flat, dusty crater.

The disappearance of the Top Star is a poignant symbol of Johannesburg’s “extractive” nature. It is a city that consumes itself to stay alive; even its historical landmarks are subject to the fluctuating price of minerals on the London and New York stock exchanges. Today, if you drive along the M2, there is an empty space in the sky where the Top Star used to be. While the reclamation removed a source of toxic dust and “acid mine drainage,” it also erased a piece of the city’s collective memory. The land where the gold-flecked mountain once stood is now being rehabilitated for light industrial use, proving that in eGoli, even the horizon is for sale if there’s enough gold hidden inside it.